Helicobacter infection in the patients with recurrent abdominal pain.
- Author:
Hung Pham Hoang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
abdominal pain
- MeSH:
Helicobacter infections;
abdominal pain
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):62-64
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The study was conducted on 81 patients with age from 6 to 15 years and have recurrent abdominal pain who were treating at the HuÕ Central Hospital between July 2000 to July 2001. It was found that the H. pylori infection rate is relative high in the patients with recurrent abdominal pain (41.98%), There was not difference in the rate of infection between two genders, age groups and between rural and urban. This rate is significant high in patients with recurrent abdominal pain who have family history of this condition, time of recurrence is longer than 12 months and the frequency of pain is more than 4 episodes.
